Root & Rise Clinical Specialists

Root & Rise Clinical Specialists Root & Rise Clinical Specialists is a boutique psychotherapy practice co-founded by Kristina Scaglione, LCSW-R and Julie Stark, LCSW. Insurance Not Accepted.
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Trauma-informed therapy and intentional private-pay care. Clinical foundation of Limitless Integrative Wellness. We provide comprehensive, holistic, and compassionate mental health care tailored to your unique needs. With over 20 years of combined experience, our dedicated team prioritizes your mental well-being, offering personalized and empathetic support every step of the way. Our team includes

highly skilled Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs) and Licensed Master Social Workers (LMSWs), working collaboratively under expert supervision to ensure the highest standards of care. LCSWs offer advanced therapy services, supervision, and training, while LMSWs provide thoughtful, responsive support—all within a coordinated, client-focused model.

05/26/2026

You can heal your trauma… and still feel something when it’s touched.

That doesn’t mean you “didn’t do the work.”
It means you’re human.

Healing isn’t emotional anesthesia.
It’s regulation.
It’s choice.
It’s not getting hijacked for three days.
It’s being able to say, “That still feels tender,” without spiraling.

Scar tissue is strong.
But it can still feel the weather change.

If you’ve ever thought,
“Why does this still bother me? I thought I healed this.”

You probably did.

Sensitivity after healing isn’t failure.
It’s integration.

If this resonates, save it.
If someone needs to hear it, send it.
And if you’re ready to do the kind of work that builds strength without shutting you down.

Root & Rise Clinical Specialists is here.

📍NY | FL
🔗 Link in bio to inquire or schedule
🎙 Listen to Licensed 2 Spill for deeper conversations on trauma, nervous system patterns, and relationships

Burnout in college students and young adults does not always look dramatic.Sometimes it looks like:• sleeping all day bu...
05/26/2026

Burnout in college students and young adults does not always look dramatic.

Sometimes it looks like:
• sleeping all day but still feeling exhausted
• struggling to focus
• feeling emotionally numb
• low motivation and disconnection
• irritability or shutting down
• constantly feeling overwhelmed
• losing interest in things you used to enjoy

And because many students are still functioning on the outside, people often mistake emotional exhaustion for laziness.

But burnout is not a character flaw.

It’s often the nervous system’s response to chronic stress, pressure, emotional overload, perfectionism, anxiety, and prolonged overwhelm.

At Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, we support college students and young adults navigating:

• burnout and emotional exhaustion
• anxiety and nervous system dysregulation
• identity shifts and life transitions
• academic pressure and overwhelm
• returning home after college
• emotional regulation and coping skills
• fear about the future or returning to school

You do not need to “push harder” to heal.

Sometimes your nervous system needs support, rest, boundaries, emotional processing, and space to recover.

📍Serving clients across:
Long Island, NY • Port Jefferson, NY • Smithtown, NY • Stony Brook, NY • Sayville, NY • Boca Raton, FL • Delray Beach, FL • Palm Beach County • Massachusetts • Connecticut

💻 Virtual + limited in-person therapy available depending on location.

🧠 Specializing in young adult mental health, trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, DBT, EFT, anxiety, burnout recovery, emotional regulation, and life transitions.

You don’t need more information.You need a different way of seeing it.Most people can explain their patterns.They know w...
05/26/2026

You don’t need more information.
You need a different way of seeing it.

Most people can explain their patterns.
They know why they react.

They understand their triggers.
They’ve talked about it, over and over.
And yet… nothing actually shifts.

Because insight alone doesn’t create change.
Perspective does.

The Stark Contrast™ was created to help you see what’s been there the whole time, the patterns, the emotional loops, the internal narratives running in the background.

Not through more talking.
Not through surface-level prompts.
Through a shift that actually lands.
We created a teaser so you can experience that difference for yourself.

→ Subscribe to access the sample
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This isn’t for everyone. But if it lands, you’ll know.

Coming home after college can feel emotionally confusing in ways many people don’t expect.You spent months learning inde...
05/24/2026

Coming home after college can feel emotionally confusing in ways many people don’t expect.

You spent months learning independence, creating new routines, discovering different parts of yourself, and adapting to life away from home.

Then suddenly… you’re back in your childhood environment, trying to figure out where the “new version” of you fits in.

A lot of college students and young adults quietly struggle with:
• anxiety and emotional overwhelm
• identity shifts and uncertainty
• family dynamic stress
• nervous system overload
• emotional exhaustion and burnout
• guilt for needing independence or space
• feeling emotionally “stuck” or misunderstood

At Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, we help young adults navigate the emotional realities of:
• transitioning home after college
• burnout and adjustment stress
• anxiety and emotional regulation
• identity development and life transitions
• homesickness and returning to school anxiety
• family relationship challenges
• taking time off school or changing direction

This doesn’t mean you’re failing.
It means you’re adjusting to a major developmental and emotional transition.

And transitions can deeply impact the nervous system—even when they’re expected.

📍Serving clients across:
Long Island, NY • Port Jefferson, NY • Smithtown, NY • Stony Brook, NY • Sayville, NY • Boca Raton, FL • Delray Beach, FL • Palm Beach County • Massachusetts • Connecticut

💻 Virtual + limited in-person therapy available depending on location.

🧠 Specializing in young adult mental health, trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, DBT, EFT, anxiety, burnout, emotional regulation, and life transitions.

05/23/2026

Anxiety often grows when we try to control everything:
• outcomes
• people
• timing
• relationships
• uncertainty
• how others perceive us

But healing starts when we learn the difference between:
what needs our energy…and what is draining it.

You cannot control every situation.
But you can learn how to regulate your nervous system, respond differently, create healthier boundaries, and stop carrying the weight of everything all at once.

At Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, we help clients build:
• emotional regulation
• healthier coping strategies
• nervous system awareness
• anxiety management tools
• self-trust and resilience
• deeper insight into patterns and triggers

Because peace doesn’t come from controlling everything.
It comes from learning how to ground yourself through uncertainty.

📍Serving clients across:
Long Island, NY • Port Jefferson, NY • Smithtown, NY • Stony Brook, NY • Sayville, NY • Boca Raton, FL • Delray Beach, FL • Palm Beach County • Massachusetts • Connecticut

💻 Virtual + in-person options available depending on location.

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Coming home after college can feel a lot more emotional than people expect.You spent months building independence, new r...
05/22/2026

Coming home after college can feel a lot more emotional than people expect.

You spent months building independence, new routines, friendships, and a different version of yourself. Then suddenly, you’re back in your childhood space trying to figure out where you fit now.

A lot of young adults quietly struggle with:
• anxiety and emotional overwhelm
• burnout and transition fatigue
• identity shifts
• overstimulation at home
• pressure about the future
• guilt for needing space or independence

At Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, we help college students and young adults navigate life transitions, emotional regulation, anxiety, burnout, family dynamic stress, and the complicated “in-between” phase of becoming an adult.

You are not failing.
You are adjusting.

📍Serving NY, FL, MA & CT
💻 Virtual + limited in-person therapy available
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We’re not in-network, and that’s intentional.At Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, we’ve deliberately chosen to remain pr...
05/21/2026

We’re not in-network, and that’s intentional.

At Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, we’ve deliberately chosen to remain private pay.

Not because we don’t care about access, but because we care deeply about the quality, depth, and integrity of the work.

Insurance often prioritizes:

speed over depth
diagnoses over nuance
session limits over clinical judgment

That’s not how meaningful therapy works.

Curated care requires boundaries.

It allows us to:
✔ Match you with the right clinician—not just the next available
✔ Work at a pace that supports real change
✔ Integrate modalities intentionally (not restrict them)
✔ Protect your privacy and autonomy

This is Mental Wealth-Care™, not crisis-driven, one-size-fits-all therapy.

And it’s designed for people who are ready to invest in doing the work well, not just quickly.

📍 Private-pay therapy serving clients in NY, FL, MA & CT
💳 Out-of-network benefits may be available depending on your plan
🔗 Apply for a consultation → link in bio
🎙 Learn more about our approach on Licensed 2 Spill (Spotify, Apple, YouTube)

“I shouldn’t feel this overwhelmed—I have a good life.”“Why do I keep ending up in the same relationship dynamic?”“I’ve ...
05/21/2026

“I shouldn’t feel this overwhelmed—I have a good life.”

“Why do I keep ending up in the same relationship dynamic?”

“I’ve tried therapy before and it didn’t really work.”

If this sounds like your internal dialogue, please read it again.

Because this isn’t confusion.
It’s a pattern.

And this is exactly where deeper work begins.

At Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, we work with high-functioning individuals who look “fine” on the outside but feel stuck, overwhelmed, or stuck in the same cycles underneath.

This isn’t surface-level support.
This is intentional, depth-oriented therapy that gets to the root of what’s actually driving those patterns.

Because insight alone isn’t enough.
Real change happens when your system is ready to process what’s been unresolved.

If therapy hasn’t worked before, it doesn’t mean you’re the problem.
It might mean the work never went deep enough, or wasn’t the right fit.

📍 Private-pay therapy serving clients in NY, FL, MA & CT
🧠 Specializing in trauma-informed, integrative care (EMDR, CBT, EFT, and more)

🔗 Apply for a consultation → link in bio

🎙 Learn more about our approach on Licensed 2 Spill (Spotify, Apple, YouTube)

Unpopular opinion, but it needs to be said:Therapy is not a subscription you cancel when it gets uncomfortable.If you’re...
05/21/2026

Unpopular opinion, but it needs to be said:

Therapy is not a subscription you cancel when it gets uncomfortable.

If you’re only showing up when it feels good, you’re not doing therapy; you’re avoiding the exact work that creates change.

Real therapy isn’t:
• quick
• convenient
• surface-level
• interchangeable

Real therapy is:
• consistent
• intentional
• uncomfortable at times
• built on trust and depth

This is where people get it wrong; they expect transformation without tolerating discomfort.

That’s not how this works.

At Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, we don’t do “check-the-box” therapy.
We do depth-oriented, results-driven work that actually changes patterns, not just talks about them.

This is Mental Wealth Care™.
And it requires more than showing up when it’s easy.

If this shifted your perspective, that’s the point.

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📍 NY | FL | CT | MA
🔗 Link in bio

05/19/2026

What happens when therapists stop approaching healing from a one-size-fits-all model?

At Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, therapy was built differently on purpose.

Co-founders Kristina Scaglione and Julie Stark created Root & Rise from the belief that mental health treatment should feel collaborative, action-oriented, personalized, and deeply human, not cold, transactional, or surface-level.

This practice was developed through years of clinical experience, personal growth, trauma work, relationship work, nervous system understanding, and the recognition that many people are exhausted from simply “coping” without truly changing the patterns that keep them stuck.

At Root & Rise, therapy may support individuals navigating:
• anxiety and chronic stress
• trauma and PTSD
• relationship and attachment issues
• burnout and emotional exhaustion
• identity exploration and life transitions
• perfectionism and people-pleasing
• ADHD and neurodivergence
• couples therapy and communication struggles
• nervous system dysregulation
• high-functioning anxiety
• emotional overwhelm and self-worth struggles

We believe therapy should help people actively reshape how they move through life, emotionally, relationally, mentally, and behaviorally.
📍Private-pay psychotherapy practice
📍Serving NY, FL, CT & MA
📍In-person and telehealth available

Learn more: link in bio

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Nobody talks enough about the anxiety of going back to college.As summer starts winding down, many students begin carryi...
05/18/2026

Nobody talks enough about the anxiety of going back to college.

As summer starts winding down, many students begin carrying:
• dread about returning
• fear of repeating the same struggles
• anxiety about academics and social pressure
• homesickness before they even leave
• burnout and emotional exhaustion
• pressure to “get it together this year”

And because everyone else seems excited online, students often feel ashamed admitting they’re struggling.

But returning to school after a difficult year can activate real nervous system stress, not weakness.

At Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, we support college students and young adults navigating:
• anxiety about returning to campus
• social anxiety and loneliness
• emotional overwhelm and burnout
• life transitions and identity shifts
• homesickness and adjustment struggles
• academic pressure and perfectionism
• relationship and friendship stress

You do not have to wait until you’re falling apart to ask for support.

Therapy can help students build emotional regulation, resilience, coping tools, self-understanding, and confidence before heading back into another school year.

📍Serving clients across:
Long Island, NY • Port Jefferson, NY • Smithtown, NY • Stony Brook, NY • Sayville, NY • Boca Raton, FL • Delray Beach, FL • Palm Beach County • Massachusetts • Connecticut

💻 Virtual + limited in-person therapy available depending on location.

🧠 Specializing in trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, DBT, EFT, young adult mental health, anxiety, burnout, emotional regulation, and college transition support.

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5301 North Federal Highway
Boca Raton, FL
33487

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Monday 12pm - 7pm
Tuesday 10am - 8pm
Wednesday 11am - 8pm
Thursday 11am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm

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